Norwegian Crafts Development -NHU 2010

Norwegian Crafts Development - NHU

Eivind Falk

Our experience

Norwegian Crafts Development -NHU 2010

Action-borne knowledge

Preserving, passing on and developing crafts as knowledge, means of expression and profession.

Knowledge transfer takes place through a practical learning situation, where experienced practitioners teach a person who is acquiring the skills and knowledge.

Norwegian Crafts Development -NHU 2010

Register of Craftsmen and Craft entreprises:

• Started 1987

• Today available and seachable on the web

• Secure historical important information

• Helps individuals or organization to find skilled craftsmen

• Face-lift on the web

Norwegian Crafts Development -NHU 2010

Projects concerning the transfer and documentation of craft skills and knowledge:

• The tradition-bearer, the apprentice, and the person responsible for documentation.

• More than 300 different projects 1987-2010.

• A project could contain: Film, video, slides, pictures, reports, sketches, drawings, logs

• New database to make the material seachable

• International projects

Norwegian Crafts Development -NHU 2010

Secretariat for rare and protected Crafts -SSV

• National responsibility for the small and rare crafts

• Provide information to individuals seeking training

• Publish information on the crafts existence.

• Help training enterprises that are looking for apprentices

• Provide the educational authorithies with information.

Norwegian Crafts Development -NHU 2010

Craft scholarships

• From 1996

• 3 year-scholarship for craftsmen.

• Seached competence both in a national and an international context.

• Important in order to accept craftsmens knowledge also on a higher level.

RFF and NHU: The Norwegian NGOs

• The Norwegian Council for tradtional music and dance est. 1973

• Norwegian Crafts Development NHU est. 1987

• Both NHU and RFF has worked on behalf of and assisted UNESCO on different levels.

Norwegian Crafts Development -NHU 2010

Norwegian Crafts Development -NHU 2010

2006-2009 • Norway is ratifying the ICH-convention.

• Ministry of Culture are responsible.

• NHU and RFF gets the accreditation as NGOs

• The Norwegian Parlament gives NHU and RFF a main responsibility for ICH.

• NHU gets extra funding in order to organize ICH-cross-over projects

• RFF and NHU is represented at the UNESCO-meeting in Abu Dhabi

Norwegian Crafts Development -NHU 2010

2009-2010

• RFF and NHU has been hosting two national conferences on ICH. Hopefully the will be one more in 2010.

• Both NGOs represented in the national workgroup in order to make a report on the behalf of the Norwegian Ministery of Culture

• The report will be published end of 2010.

• ICH-Centre?